[4][5] Members of the Regiment who served in Dhofar are entitled to wear the General Service Medal Oman, its ribbon design illustrated on the right (see Decorations).

[6] The NFR and Muscat Regiment are the two most senior infantry regiments in RAO; and were formed from earlier less formal units of doubtful capabilities and were an attempt by British advisors to the Sultan to develop a more credible armed forces to respond to a number of persistent threats from some interior tribes and their financial sponsors in Saudi Arabia.

These tensions came to a head in the Jebel Akhdar War in which the regiment played a particularly active part.

Once the rebels were driven from the mountain NFR established a base at one of the main villages (Saiq).

[13] The NFR remains on the Order of Battle of the Royal Army of Oman and is based in Ibri.